The Osceola times., 1887-08-06
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss NJ IHy CLAYTON BLACK
daughter of the late Jeremiah Black. /,
about to publish biography Of her
father.
Mrs. HARRIET B. MAvIs of Bur
lingame, Kan, has taken a patent for
board designed to hold a shirt while
its front and back are being ironed.
Miss KATE RYAN. of Brooklyn, n.
Y. has patented a filling attachment
for hot-water rubber-bags, 20 that they
can be filled without scalding the hands
Miss ANNIE Thomas, of Billings. NJ
T., conducts a 6,000-acre ranch, looks
after valuable timber property, and has
an interest in two paying mines near
Butte City.
Miss LILLE M. PACKARD, who grad.
uated from the College of Liberal Arts,
Boston University, this year has be-
come teacher of mathematics in Lasell
Seminary, at Auburndale.
| Miss MINNA r. POLLOCK, the new
Commissioner of Deeds in New York,
has been sworn in A Boston woman
would like TO know what 1t was she
had to say'when they swore her.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON has left West
Pittston, Pa, hoping for improved
health with change of residence, and
will pass the season in Honesdale with
her sister. Miss Susan Dickinson.
EMMA ErHERIDGE BARLOW, Of Cold
water, Mich. has completed the stu.
dents regular law course OF study
Mrs. Barlow has spent some time
abroad, and is a woman OF liberal edu'
cation.
Mrs. FANNIE II. FOWLER. in her col.
umn. "The Woman's Empire" In Man.
istee. Mich. deals with Rev. c. l.
Woodwork. Secretary of the American
Missionary Society, who some time
since set forth the ante-suffrage ground
in Good Cheer.
Mrs. ERNEST HART has done much
to help the suffering Donegal peas.
antry by system Of cottage indus
tries. Glove-knitting, crocheting and
embroidery give many poor Irish
women chance to earn a few shill-
lings to help the family fund.
Mrs. BESSIE WHITE HAGER, of Louis
vile, KY, has compelled the State
Board of Pharmacy to grant her GER
tilicate to dispense medicine as a chem
list. Although she had a pharmacists
diploma, the Board refused 10 examine
her, but have now been compelled to
do so by the courts.
Mrs. LOGAN says: "lt has happened
that in cases Of illness or disability oil
men clerks the wives performed the
duties of their husbands, drawing 10
their name the salary as If they bad
performed the work. In one case the
wife kept up her husbands desk for
three years, receiving the Sl,SOO, and
thereby supporting the family; but
from the day of his death, though she
continued the same work, her salary
was reduced to 5000"
Miss CAROLINE w. HALL, of Boston,
was awarded medal at the recent dis
trbution of prizes at the Academy ol
Fine Arts in Milan. Italy, she being
one of the four fortunate contestants
in the school Of landscape painting
Her subject was part of the grounds
surrounding the home OF the gre@
Leonardo da Vinci. Miss Hall also
distinguished herself in the winter class
of decorative oil painting. Tms
the second year she has taken prize
medal.
Miss SARAH ANGIE FRENCH, OF Can,
terbury, N. II. has recently graduates
with honors at the Medical College o.
the New York Iniirmary. She h@
spent four years in hospitals and meuf
cal colleges in Boston and New 10TH
and has refused offers with large sai~
ries for services in Egypt and inu'I
She has now accepted the position! "
senior resident physician at the ins'i'I
tion from which she has just graduates
for one year, after which she in.epu'
70 spend two years in study IN i"n
and Vienna, and then settle IN NV